Title: waiting and contact pop3 Server after 2 min
Question: I wrote an application that connects to a pop3 Server and checks
if there are new email and if they are the application sends an sms
to my mobil phone. Can someone tell me how to make my application wait 2 min after checking again. so i can work with my computer during my application is running.
Answer:
can someone please help
can i run my application in the background?
or run it as a windows service?
this is my email procedure:
procedure Temail_form.getEmail;
var
text :Tmailmessage;
lines,anzEmail,anzahl,i :integer;
zeile,emailTxt,smsTxt,errorMsg :string;
SoapClient :OleVariant;
reg :boolean;
begin
smsTxt:='';
errorMsg:=' Das ist eine Evaluation Version.'+#13+'Es sind nicht mehr als 3 Emails zulssig !!';
pop3konto.Host:=edServer.Text;
pop3konto.UserID:=edUser.Text;
pop3konto.Password:=edPasswort.Text;
try
pop3konto.Connect;
except
ShowMessage('Knnte keine Verbindung zum Server aufbauen');
end;
anzahl:=pop3konto.MailCount;
if anzahl 0 then
for i:=1 to anzahl do
if pop3konto.UniqueID(i)=readreg('\software\Microsoft\ApplicationKey\Key'+inttostr(i),pop3konto.UniqueID(i)) then
begin
pop3konto.GetMailMessage(anzEmail);
text:=pop3konto.MailMessage;
lines:=text.Body.Count;
emailTxt:=text.From;
for lines:=3 to lines do
begin
zeile:=text.Body[lines-3];
zeile:=AnsiReplacetext(zeile,'=DF','ss');
zeile:=AnsiReplacetext(zeile,'=FC','ue');
zeile:=AnsiReplacetext(zeile,'=20',',');
zeile:=AnsiReplacetext(zeile,'=F6','oe');
emailTxt:=emailTxt+zeile+' ';
end;
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